Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 61 63
Rank change year-on-year -55 +2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 1,515 1,898 3,657
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.65% 4.31% 3.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 4.62% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,053 1,032 2,746
10th Percentile £48,289 £48,787 £43,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £74,870 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.17% +15.18% -16.13%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £83,759
90th Percentile £115,000 £114,223 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £61,206
% change year-on-year -3.57% +14.37% -9.32%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 67,796 41,102 82,489
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.66% 93.28% 84.85%
Number of salaries quoted 43,826 22,293 59,720
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% -10.10%
75th Percentile £78,750 £78,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -9.09%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 19 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 19 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 1,377 £75,000 - 556
London +2 711 £85,000 - 245
UK excluding London -114 678 £67,500 -3.57% 360
Work from Home -33 643 £70,000 - 322
North of England -62 304 £69,310 -3.74% 109
South East -75 164 £67,500 - 112
North West -66 149 £72,500 - 73
Yorkshire -30 100 £69,308 -4.40% 18
Midlands -91 69 £67,750 +4.23% 40
South West -93 60 £52,500 -23.39% 48
North East +2 55 £65,000 +18.18% 18
West Midlands -52 49 £77,500 +10.71% 25
East of England -31 40 £60,100 +0.17% 19
Scotland -77 31 £62,500 -18.73% 17
East Midlands -72 19 £66,000 +5.60% 15
Northern Ireland -33 8 £62,500 +25.00% 9
Wales -41 8 £53,171 +2.25% 10
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
Channel Islands - 1 £90,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 28 (1.85%) Apache Spark
2 18 (1.19%) Confluence
3 15 (0.99%) Apache
4 14 (0.92%) IIS
4 14 (0.92%) OpenStack
5 13 (0.86%) CMS
5 13 (0.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 11 (0.73%) JBoss
7 9 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.40%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 6 (0.40%) WordPress
9 5 (0.33%) Drupal
9 5 (0.33%) WebSphere
10 4 (0.26%) Camunda
10 4 (0.26%) GeoServer
11 3 (0.20%) Appian
11 3 (0.20%) Liferay
11 3 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.13%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (0.59%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.46%) Maya
3 6 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.40%) PlantUML
4 3 (0.20%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.13%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.26%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle Retail
5 2 (0.13%) Endur
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Shopify
6 1 (0.066%) Actimize
6 1 (0.066%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.066%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.066%) Quorum
6 1 (0.066%) R3 Corda
6 1 (0.066%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.066%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 810 (53.47%) AWS
2 617 (40.73%) Azure
3 301 (19.87%) GCP
4 248 (16.37%) Serverless
5 155 (10.23%) SaaS
6 125 (8.25%) GitHub
7 124 (8.18%) Azure DevOps
8 116 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
9 106 (7.00%) Amazon S3
10 93 (6.14%) Amazon EKS
11 85 (5.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 71 (4.69%) Amazon SQS
13 69 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
14 63 (4.16%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (3.56%) Azure Service Bus
16 48 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 45 (2.97%) Azure AKS
17 45 (2.97%) Datadog
18 41 (2.71%) GitHub Actions
18 41 (2.71%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 60 (3.96%) Broadband
2 20 (1.32%) Network Security
3 10 (0.66%) DNS
3 10 (0.66%) HTTP
3 10 (0.66%) MQTT
4 8 (0.53%) Internet
4 8 (0.53%) VPN
5 7 (0.46%) AMQP
5 7 (0.46%) Firewall
6 6 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (0.40%) DHCP
6 6 (0.40%) TCP/IP
7 5 (0.33%) LTE
8 3 (0.20%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.20%) Hyperconnected
8 3 (0.20%) Modbus
8 3 (0.20%) RFID
8 3 (0.20%) SNMP
8 3 (0.20%) WAN
9 2 (0.13%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (12.74%) NoSQL
2 187 (12.34%) MongoDB
3 177 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
4 86 (5.68%) MySQL
5 85 (5.61%) SQL Server
6 76 (5.02%) Relational Database
7 73 (4.82%) Elasticsearch
8 58 (3.83%) DynamoDB
9 48 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 42 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
11 37 (2.44%) Redis
12 33 (2.18%) BigQuery
13 31 (2.05%) Big Data
14 23 (1.52%) RDBMS
15 13 (0.86%) Pinecone
16 11 (0.73%) DB2
16 11 (0.73%) Power BI
17 7 (0.46%) Hadoop
17 7 (0.46%) Tableau
18 6 (0.40%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 193 (12.74%) Git
2 139 (9.17%) GitLab
3 128 (8.45%) Jenkins
4 55 (3.63%) TeamCity
5 45 (2.97%) JIRA
6 40 (2.64%) JUnit
7 36 (2.38%) Cucumber
8 31 (2.05%) CircleCI
9 30 (1.98%) Cypress.io
10 27 (1.78%) Mockito
11 26 (1.72%) Maven
12 22 (1.45%) Claude Code
13 18 (1.19%) SonarQube
14 16 (1.06%) Selenium
15 15 (0.99%) Bitbucket
15 15 (0.99%) Vite
16 13 (0.86%) JMeter
17 8 (0.53%) Visual Studio
18 7 (0.46%) NUnit
18 7 (0.46%) REST Assured
General
1 440 (29.04%) Finance
2 301 (19.87%) Social Skills
3 160 (10.56%) Banking
4 124 (8.18%) Public Sector
5 96 (6.34%) Law
6 95 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
7 81 (5.35%) Retail
8 71 (4.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 51 (3.37%) Financial Institution
10 43 (2.84%) Back Office
11 36 (2.38%) Telecoms
12 24 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.19%) Billing
13 18 (1.19%) Legal
14 17 (1.12%) Marketing
15 16 (1.06%) Games
16 15 (0.99%) Advertising
17 14 (0.92%) Aerospace
18 12 (0.79%) Front Office
19 10 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 521 (34.39%) Developer
2 397 (26.20%) Senior
3 311 (20.53%) Software Engineer
4 222 (14.65%) Architect
5 204 (13.47%) Lead
6 134 (8.84%) Full-Stack Developer
7 126 (8.32%) Java Developer
8 120 (7.92%) Senior Developer
9 105 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 104 (6.86%) Java Engineer
11 103 (6.80%) .NET Developer
12 89 (5.87%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (4.29%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 58 (3.83%) Software Developer
15 55 (3.63%) Lead Developer
16 53 (3.50%) Principal Engineer
17 50 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
18 48 (3.17%) C# Developer
19 46 (3.04%) Java Software Engineer
19 46 (3.04%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 332 (21.91%) React
2 328 (21.65%) .NET
3 277 (18.28%) RESTful
4 263 (17.36%) Node.js
5 245 (16.17%) Spring
6 223 (14.72%) Spring Boot
7 219 (14.46%) REST
8 191 (12.61%) Kafka
9 125 (8.25%) AngularJS
10 111 (7.33%) .NET Core
11 100 (6.60%) ASP.NET
12 94 (6.20%) Vue
13 90 (5.94%) gRPC
14 88 (5.81%) HTML
15 78 (5.15%) CSS
16 77 (5.08%) ASP.NET Core
17 68 (4.49%) .NET Framework
18 66 (4.36%) RabbitMQ
19 53 (3.50%) OAuth
20 50 (3.30%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 424 (27.99%) Cloud Native
2 259 (17.10%) Distributed Systems
3 111 (7.33%) Product Ownership
4 82 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
5 63 (4.16%) Legacy Systems
6 57 (3.76%) Greenfield Project
7 46 (3.04%) Video\Live Streaming
8 45 (2.97%) Over-the-Top Content
9 38 (2.51%) Algorithms
10 37 (2.44%) Data Structures
11 27 (1.78%) Blockchain
11 27 (1.78%) Distributed Architecture
12 26 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
13 24 (1.58%) Public Cloud
14 22 (1.45%) Mobile App
15 21 (1.39%) Legacy Applications
16 20 (1.32%) AI Agents
17 19 (1.25%) Onboarding
17 19 (1.25%) Virtual Team
18 18 (1.19%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 89 (5.87%) Linux
2 41 (2.71%) Windows
3 20 (1.32%) Unix
4 9 (0.59%) Android
5 5 (0.33%) Apple iOS
5 5 (0.33%) CentOS
5 5 (0.33%) Debian
5 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.26%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.066%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 742 (48.98%) CI/CD
2 623 (41.12%) Agile
3 561 (37.03%) Software Engineering
4 557 (36.77%) DevOps
5 384 (25.35%) Containerisation
6 377 (24.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 348 (22.97%) Mentoring
8 302 (19.93%) Test Automation
9 297 (19.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 292 (19.27%) Event-Driven
11 285 (18.81%) Problem-Solving
12 281 (18.55%) AI
13 262 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
14 199 (13.14%) Scrum
15 179 (11.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 178 (11.75%) Technical Leadership
17 177 (11.68%) Coaching
18 174 (11.49%) Computer Science
19 167 (11.02%) Clean Code
20 165 (10.89%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 505 (33.33%) Java
2 403 (26.60%) Python
3 327 (21.58%) JavaScript
4 323 (21.32%) SQL
5 301 (19.87%) C#
6 242 (15.97%) TypeScript
7 126 (8.32%) Go
8 51 (3.37%) Scala
9 49 (3.23%) C++
10 47 (3.10%) PHP
11 39 (2.57%) Bash
12 32 (2.11%) C
13 27 (1.78%) Ruby
14 24 (1.58%) PL/SQL
15 23 (1.52%) Rust
16 19 (1.25%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.25%) Shell Script
17 18 (1.19%) PowerShell
18 14 (0.92%) Groovy
19 10 (0.66%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 181 (11.95%) Degree
2 167 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 107 (7.06%) SC Cleared
4 97 (6.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 57 (3.76%) AWS Certification
6 28 (1.85%) Azure Certification
7 27 (1.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 27 (1.78%) DV Cleared
8 26 (1.72%) Master's Degree
9 25 (1.65%) CISSP
10 20 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (0.92%) DBS Check
13 12 (0.79%) AWS Certified Developer
14 11 (0.73%) CISM
15 8 (0.53%) PhD
16 6 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
17 5 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
17 5 (0.33%) GIAC
17 5 (0.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (6.60%) QA
2 36 (2.38%) Accessibility
3 30 (1.98%) GDPR
3 30 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.58%) PCI DSS
5 23 (1.52%) NIST
6 19 (1.25%) SOC 2
7 12 (0.79%) GRC
8 11 (0.73%) Actionable Recommendations
9 10 (0.66%) NCSC
10 9 (0.59%) WCAG
11 8 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.40%) IFRS
13 5 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.20%) SLA
15 2 (0.13%) SEPA
16 1 (0.066%) Data Quality
16 1 (0.066%) Solvency II
System Software
1 448 (29.57%) Docker
2 14 (0.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.20%) Firmware
4 2 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.066%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 479 (31.62%) Kubernetes
2 284 (18.75%) Terraform
3 86 (5.68%) Ansible
4 82 (5.41%) Grafana
5 46 (3.04%) Prometheus
6 25 (1.65%) Argo
7 22 (1.45%) Kibana
8 18 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.86%) Puppet
10 10 (0.66%) Cilium
11 9 (0.59%) HP Fortify
12 4 (0.26%) Packer
12 4 (0.26%) Podman
12 4 (0.26%) Rancher
13 3 (0.20%) Istio
13 3 (0.20%) Nagios
14 2 (0.13%) MIIS
14 2 (0.13%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 162 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 66 (4.36%) Google
3 50 (3.30%) Oracle
4 45 (2.97%) Typelevel
5 22 (1.45%) OpenAI
6 20 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 17 (1.12%) Splunk
8 16 (1.06%) AppDynamics
9 14 (0.92%) IBM
10 12 (0.79%) Red Hat
11 11 (0.73%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (0.66%) Guidewire
12 10 (0.66%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.59%) Adobe
13 9 (0.59%) Cisco
13 9 (0.59%) SAP
14 8 (0.53%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.40%) HubSpot
15 6 (0.40%) Juniper
15 6 (0.40%) Software AG